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A Bride

ca. 1895
oil on canvas
21 x 17 1/8 in. (53.3 x 43.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Angel

1887
oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 1/8 in. (92.0 x 71.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Blue Jays In Winter, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom

ca. 1905-1909
oil on canvas
22 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (56.1 x 45.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Brother And Sister (Mary And Gerald Thayer)

1889
oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (92 x 71.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
This work portrays Abbott Thayer's children one year after their mother's hospitalization for "melancholia," or severe depression. Kate Thayer became physically ill while hospitalized, and Thayer wrote to a friend that her physical deterioration would not be so horrible "were her soul visible" (Anderson, Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1982). Thayer...
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Cornish Headlands

1898
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Dublin Pond, New Hampshire

1894
oil on canvas
20 1/8 x 16 1/8 in. (51.1 x 40.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
This painting was a wedding present for Abbott Thayers friend the architect Stanford White. It is a view near the artists home in Dublin, New Hampshire, and Thayer himself thought the finished painting a very successful picture of the sunshine striking down on the bottom of a summer lake. Thayers many outdoor scenes of Dublin reflect his passion for...
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Girl Arranging Her Hair

1918-1919
oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 24 1/4 in. (65.1 x 61.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Alma Wollerman Thayer was the wife of Abbott Thayer's son, Gerald, and mother of Thayer's grandchildren. She was one of his favorite models, and he spoke of his obsession with her sensual features. He created multiple versions of this composition, but claimed that he had never painted anything to compare with this Botticelli-like Alma head
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Half Draped Figure

ca. 1885
oil on canvas
71 3/8 x 47 3/4 in. (181.3 x 121.3 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Male Wood Duck In A Forest Pool, Study For Book Concealing Coloration In The Animal Kingdom

ca. 1905-1909
oil on canvas
20 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (51.3 x 51.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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My Children (Mary, Gerald, And Gladys Thayer)

ca. 1897
oil on canvas
86 1/4 x 61 1/8 in. (219.1 x 155.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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